You're absolutely on track here The way he did it is nice and minimal, and in 2 months when you go back to change something you will have no idea what you did.

You're absolutely on track here The way he did it is nice and minimal, and in 2 months when you go back to change something you will have no idea what you did. I've had to do a few things in R and I always dread revisiting my code. Half the time it's easier and faster to just rewrite everything.